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Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:40:32 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:25
Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup


> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:06:10AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:

> The code in setup.exe seems to indicate that mkpasswd and mkgroup will
> not be run if the corresponding files already exist.  I was asking if
> people were actually seeing this happen after a first-time install.

I recently messed with the function that does that, so I can confirm that it
only runs mkpasswd and mkgroup if the corresponding files don't exist.
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